Teen Fiction Quotes

“I know that I'm the only one who truly cares about my happiness, so I make it a priority”
― Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

“Call me Cudjo." It's a strong name that means "born on Monday." Doesn't change who I am in de insde. I will always be Kossola, no matter what de white men call me.”
― Charles waters, African Town

“He ran his hands down my hair. He put his head on top of mine and said, “Someday, I think you would have looked back at this very moment and realized how strong you truly were. I think you would have realized how capable you were of getting past this. It may have not been soon, Brantley Thornton, but I promise you, I promise you, it would have been one day. This is just a chapter of your life, Brantley. Not your entire story. But you have to get through this part to be able to see the rest.”
I grabbed his hands and I traced my thumb over the places where ridges and bumps and calluses should have been and then I drew his hands to my chest, to feel my then beating heart. Tears dripped and poured down my face and I didn’t dare to wipe them. And I told him, “I do not have one day.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“His love for me, it was... boundless. And at times, it was baffling and concerning, really, how easily he could have loved such a heart and soul like mine. A damaged, fragile one, that is; when his, on the contrary, was authentically pure and whole. And yet, despite being polar opposites, our hearts were the same. They were made in the same cast, beat at the same pace, leaped and danced whenever in each other’s presence. It seemed like they beat for one another.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“I could just... feel it. I could feel my soul intertwining with his, finding a home in his presence. I could feel my heart skipping a beat, trying to spring out of my chest to chase after him, to love his heart in return the same way that he did mine. I could feel the universe fighting for us, fighting for us to be, pushing us together, even when I wanted to be as far away from him as possible. I could feel it. I could feel everything, even though it was simply asomatous. Despite lacking physicality, his love could not be denied by one who had eyes to see the sight and feel the aura of what was right in front of them.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“The world went quiet. And so did my heart.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“He shivered and he shuddered and allowed himself to sulk in his tears and allowed his heart to burst into flames and turn into ash, because that’s all it could do. That seemed like the most natural sequence of things to happen when the person he loved most was no longer there to love.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“All I could’ve wished was that more people told you you were worth being loved, I really do. You still are, even now that you’ve passed and are longer gone than I’d like to come to terms with. And it is because of your worthiness of love that I will continue loving you until I take my very last breath. But this is not our goodbye, Brantley Thornton. Because I know I will simply see you in the stars later on.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“So though, no, you should not mend her, you should not repair her, you have to let her do that herself, but you should, however, inspire her; inspire her to live on and find a life worth living.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“She is deserving of many things in this world, Caspian Marks. Including such a phenomenal man as yourself. But she is also deserving of someone who will make her world light up, when she thought she would see absolutely none again. So if you cannot brighten up her world, do not enter it and allow it to become any dimmer than it already is. You love her, and you love her hard. And you take care of her, especially when she cannot take care of herself.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“He felt so... empty. He felt so lost. So lost in a world he was so sure he would be okay to maneuver alone in. So lost in a world that once seemed so easy to figure out and establish where you were and where you needed to be. But nothing about this life without Brantley Thornton would be easy to figure out. He wasn’t sure where he was and where he needed to be when the only place he felt he truly knew and needed to be was in Brantley Thornton’s arms.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“I would have given her my very last breath, but as you know, she already took hers.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“And after time, after feeling utterly special by one individual, I realized it was never about being remembered by all. It was always about being remembered and making a significant impact on those who you have loved, and those who loved you.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“I am forever grateful that I touched you in a way and temporarily changed that life of yours, Brantley Thornton. With that in the back of my mind, I will be able to live in this world and continue on with life, while you were mine, and you are no longer in it.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“But if she was not loved by anyone else in the world, she was loved... by me. And my love for her, Brantley Thornton, was and is unequivocal. And the flame that sets out hearts ablaze continues to burn now, fiercer and more powerful than ever. Though tragic and ephemeral, our story was the quintessence of love.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“You see, people believe that depressed people are numb. Numb to any feelings and any sensations. That they cannot feel anything, when... when that is the farthest thing from what is actually going on. In reality, depressed people, we are the ones who feel the most, among everyone. We feel our emotions, our pain, ragingly, roaringly, through the rooftops and written across skylines. That is why we suffer the most. I think that is why I suffered in the way I did.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“You made me so happy, but that does not mean I was a happy person. It does not mean I had a happy mind and a happy soul. The trick to living life is to find happiness and love in everything you do, Caspian Marks. And I did. I found love and I found happiness in you, but you, you were the sole person alive who was a contributor to that. I could not find love and happiness in everything that I did, because you were the only thing I knew that was worthy of love.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“My life... it did mean something. And though it may have not mattered in the grand scheme of things, per se, it did matter. It took me a long time to come to terms with that, but it did. It did matter while I was still here, still living and breathing about as a human being would. And most of all, at the end of the day, not only did it matter in the grand scheme of things, but it mattered to me.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“Whether I meant something to this world, whether I meant something to myself, whether I had a true, genuine life purpose or not, it did not matter. Not anymore, not to me. Because I may have not mattered to the world or in the grand scheme of things, just as you, Caspian Marks, had said I would. But I mattered to the most important person in my world. I mattered... to you.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“So live your life and conquer the world, because it is your world. It is your world and all of us... we are all simply living in it. Every last one of us. This world revolves around you, this world revolves for you, and this world remains to turn and always will for as long as you live... because of you. So you go and you live and you learn and you love, with everything you have in you.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“I’m letting you go. I’m freeing you. You are no longer mine, Caspian Marks. And when I look back at it, you never were, and I don’t know why for any fraction of a second I would have come to that conclusion. You have never belonged to me. You have never belonged to anyone. But you do, and always have and probably always will, belong to this earth. You are the universe’s child. You will belong to this earth and I will belong to the stars, for now.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“I may be leaving this earth, but I will remain in the stars. I will watch over you and protect you, and when it is your time and you are ready to find me once more, you will fall into my arms. And when you do, all the planets and asteroids and stars and specks of dust in this endless universe will sigh in unison, because they will all know that our souls found their way together—somehow, someway, just as they were always supposed to.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“Call me Cudjo." It's a strong name from Africa that means "born on Monday." Doesn't change who I am on de inside. I will always be Kosssola, no matter what de white men call me.”
― Charles Waters

“I want to scream. I want to fling myself down and beat my hands against the ground. This isn’t how things were supposed to be. This isn’t how this story was supposed to end.

It feels like a lifetime ago that my family and I embarked on our simulated mission. I wish I'd known what would happen next. I wish I could go back in time and grab my family and run far away ... all the way to the moon. But, of course, that's impossible.

And now it's too late to run.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Darkness Outside

“Our teacher, Professor Adam, doesn’t know we’re just going through the motions. He doesn’t understand that nothing he’s saying really matters anymore. This classroom, and everything that happens inside it, once seemed big and important. Now it all seems silly and insignificant. I try to pay attention, because we’re supposed to, but my mind can’t focus on the present. It’s too busy thinking about the future. A future where every life in this room is in jeopardy.”
― J.W. Lynne, Above the Sky

“Screams. Screams. Everywhere. Everyone is scared. But I don’t know who “everyone” is. Their voices sound young, so I guess they’re kids, like me. I don’t hear any older voices. So either the grownups aren’t scared, or there aren’t any grownups with us anymore.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Unknown

“Fourteen-year-old Connor Hansen raced at full speed through the shiny, sterile emergency room hallways of Westley Hospital. He was excited ... and terrified. He was about to do what he had been training for almost his entire life. But if he failed, someone would die. Paramedics rushed toward him, pushing a bright-yellow gurney that carried a bloodied, lifeless man whose heart had stopped beating. It was Connor's job to get the man's heart started again. Connor was a doctor.”
― J.W. Lynne, Kid Docs

“I had always been a "good" kid, the kind of kid that parents didn't have to worry about. My homework was always done, I never talked back, I always followed the rules, and I happily went along with what everyone else wanted. In a normal nuclear family, that kind of stuff made parents proud, right? But in a family such as mine, it made me forgettable.”
― Lyn Painter

“I know that I'm the only one who truly cares about my happiness, so I make it a priority”
― Lyn Painter

“I went through a phase in sixth grade where I wore the same T-shirt every day, just to see if anyone noticed. They didn't so I gave up after sixteen days in a row”
― Lyn Painter